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The Work

Heritage & Cultural Clients

Licensed merchandise and own-label scarves for the British Museum, Royal Collection Trust, Chatsworth House, Fenwick, Orvis, Limewood Hotel, Lalage Beaumont, Bentalls, and Ahume, including the herringbone scarf that sold 17 pieces a day at Fenwick.

FenwickBritish MuseumChatsworth HouseOrvisLimewood HotelBentallsAhume

What heritage retail actually requires

Heritage and cultural retail clients share one thing in common: they choose with care, and they return to partners who deliver beautifully. A Fenwick buyer who lists your scarf is placing trust in your quality, your delivery, and your replenishment capability. A museum licensing manager approving your design is trusting your colour management and your production standards. These relationships are built through consistent delivery, and they grow more valuable with every season.

The clients listed on this page have stayed because the work speaks for itself, season after season, reorder after reorder, design after design. That consistency is the foundation. The scarves are how it's expressed.

Bhavna Rishi London scarves stocked at Fenwick, Chatsworth House, Orvis, the British Museum, Limewood Hotel, Lalage Beaumont, Bentalls, and Ahume, with the herringbone scarf selling 17 pieces a day at peak.

The clients

2016–2018

Fenwick

Fenwick

The herringbone scarf that sold 17 a day.

Bhavna Rishi London's herringbone wool scarves became one of Fenwick's fastest-moving independent label products. At peak, the scarf sold seventeen pieces a day, a result of getting the fundamentals right: fabric weight, price point, seasonal colour, and the kind of presentation a Fenwick buyer trusts. The scarf came in a bespoke colourburst gift box which was loved by each customer and adored by the Fenwick staff. Even to date, anyone who had purchased the scarf has kept the box for safekeeping. The box packaging was inspired by one of our travels and transformed into multiple colour bursts.

Bespoke colourburst gift box created to house the herringbone wool scarf.Assorted herringbone wool scarves in the full seasonal range of colourways.Herringbone wool scarf in berry.Herringbone wool scarf in orange.Herringbone wool scarf in beige.Colourburst printed square scarf, drawn from the same colour story as the gift box.

2019

British Museum

British Museum

Retail Gift shop

Original artwork transformed into a beautiful shirt dress, merchandised for the British Museum's retail offering in 2019. Each artwork was inspired by the colourful brushstrokes of the digital artwork created into a series of women's shirt dresses to create a functional and artistic piece.

Source painting, digital brushstroke artwork that inspired the shirt dress range.British Museum shirt dress in the printed brushstroke design, full piece.British Museum shirt dress in an alternate colourway.British Museum shirt dress, styled view.British Museum shirt dress, print detail.British Museum shirt dress, retail-ready piece.

2013

Royal Collection Trust

The Royal Collection Trust

Bespoke designing from the intricate work on Buckingham Palace ceilings and details captured from the official emblem of the UK monarch, called the Royal Coat of Arms, featuring a shield divided into four quarters representing the nations of the UK, along with the English Lion and the Scottish Unicorn, and topped with the Royal Crown.

Produced a series of scarves using repeat prints in jacquard, premium silks and modals. Every design element, every colourway, every fabrication was created with heritage designs in mind and that required care of the intricate design, using elements and colours with a rich combination of historical and ceremonial hues.

Throne room ceiling at Buckingham Palace, design source for the modal scarf range.Royal Coat of Arms artwork, digitally recreated by Bhavna for the jacquard design.Royal Coat of Arms jacquard scarf in blue.Royal Coat of Arms jacquard scarf in fuchsia.Modal scarf in blue, drawn from the ceiling motif.Modal scarf in red, ceiling-inspired repeat.

2017–2022

Chatsworth House

Chatsworth House

The Devonshire estate, luxury retail at pace.

Own-label silk and wool scarves for Chatsworth House's retail operation. One of England's great country houses has a retail audience that expects quality commensurate with the setting, fabrics, finishes, and presentation all calibrated to that expectation.

2013–2017

Orvis

Orvis

The heritage outdoor brand, seasonal collections.

Silk and cashmere scarves stocked by Orvis, the heritage American outdoor and lifestyle retailer with a strong UK presence. Seasonal collections developed to match Orvis's country aesthetic, natural palettes, traditional motifs, the kind of craft that speaks to their customer.

Animal-print blue Heffalump scarf produced for Orvis.Animal-print blue Heffalump scarf, alternate view.

2017–2019

Limewood Hotel

Limewood Hotel

15 designs across three seasons. New Forest-themed.

A seasonal scarf range for Limewood Hotel, one of the UK's most admired luxury country house hotels, set in the New Forest. Over the course of the relationship (2017–2019) approximately 200 pieces were produced across 15 designs: silk florals and herringbone wool, all themed to the New Forest landscape and the hotel's considered aesthetic.

2015–2018

Lalage Beaumont

Knightsbridge.

Silk and cashmere scarves for Lalage Beaumont's Knightsbridge boutique, a store whose proximity to Harrods sets the standard its buyers expect. Seasonal themed collections developed over three years, each one demanding the kind of fabric and colour work that requires luxury feel and attention to detail with hem finishes and the quality of the fabrics.

Ivory cashmere and silk basket-weave scarf.Cilla green silk scarf.Begonia emerald silk scarf.Peacock feather collage cashmere scarf.Cobalt blue cashmere scarf with python-print border.Painting splash cashmere scarf.

2018

Bentalls

Bentalls

Art-inspired silk and cashmere.

Silk and cashmere art-inspired scarves produced for Bentalls's seasonal themed collection in 2018. Bentalls is a long-established department store with a discerning customer base, product quality and design coherence were the brief.

Silk scarf from the Bentalls seasonal collection, studio shoot.Floral silk scarf styled on the model for the Bentalls collection.The scarf live on the Bentalls retail page in 2019.

2016–2019

Ahume

Ahume

Ahume Drapers, award-winning shop since 1929.

Silk and wool scarves stocked in Ahume's Scotland store under the Bhavna Rishi London label, an own-label retail relationship that ran from 2016 to 2019. Ahume is a shop since 1929 specialising in country menswear and womenswear, with a Scottish audience that values quality provenance and considered design.

Marketing image of silk scarves in peacock and leopard prints for Ahume.Jacquard scarf in ivory for Ahume.Jacquard scarf in camel for Ahume.Jacquard scarf in blue for Ahume.Jacquard scarf in pink for Ahume.Jacquard collage scarf for Ahume, mixed colour story.

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